Ok, Premex is right and I misstated the facts. I should have said "One of the reasons that Thailand is my favorite..."

Good catch.

Now that we've gone TOTALLY omni, here's a "fun" game: Since the "culture" of recent (in the last 500 years) immigrants to Australia actually traces back to England and the Commonwealth, it is not a particularly "new" culture (just as the cultures of all colonial imports are not "new").

What is the "newest" culture on the earth? How would you define it? It seems to me that middle-eastern cultures are both the most ancient and the newest...Although I might jingoistically mention that since the American "melting pot" culture is constantly evolving it could be conceived as the "newest" (notwithstanding all evidence to the contrary...).

Again, I am fascinated.